From Robert Mitchell! Storage Spaces is functionality built into Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 that allows you to pool together physical disks into a logical grouping and then carve out virtual disks (aka storage spaces or just spaces). These spaces can utilize different RAID levels and even thin provisioning. Today’s tip explains what happens… Continue reading Windows 8 Tip of the Day, Storage Spaces Explained
Month: May 2013
Windows 8 Tip of the Day–Sysinternals Updates!
Today’s Tip… From Robert Mitchell! A number of SysInternals tools were recently updated. For those of you that use these tools on a regular basis, you might want to grab these updates and add them to your respective collections. AccessChk v5.11: AccessChk, a command line utility for dumping the effective permissions and security descriptors for… Continue reading Windows 8 Tip of the Day–Sysinternals Updates!
How to redirect Serial Ports in Windows Server 2012 RDS/VDI
This tip came to me from a question someone posed internally that we had to find an answer for by hunting someone down . This property isn’t exposed in Server Managers’ UI, so you can set it by calling this powershell command: Set-RDVirtualDesktopCollectionConfiguration –CollectionName <farm> –CustomRdpProperty “redirectcomports:i:1” Now the Remote Desktop Client will… Continue reading How to redirect Serial Ports in Windows Server 2012 RDS/VDI